For 8th graders, the pre-requisite for this course is World Language 1 or teacher approval. French I is a full year course meeting every day. Students who successfully complete this course earning a C or higher are eligible to sign up for French II. Vocabulary on selected topics includes having a basic greeting conversation, describing friends and family, talking about school, and more. Grammatically the students will be speaking in the present indicative tense, using adjective agreement, correct levels of formality, and object pronouns. Culturally, units stress the way of life of France and other French-speaking areas of the world.